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Show t "'1' 'i The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, January 13, Smith Hemptorirt How to Kill Filled With Flapdoodle y terror-bombin- of g was Hanoi-Haiphon- g largely flapdoodle, a useful word which Mr. Webster defines as for fools, specious talk, nonsense. Anglo-Saxo- n food In a Jan, 4 report, Hanoi radio saitj persons were killed and 1,261 wounded in the bombing which began Dec. 18. In the period beginning on 1,318 y that date, 'Hanoi radio said, American planes flew' more than 1,000 sorties (including 500 by B52s) and dropped 40,000 tons of bombs. One to Capitalism Johnson and Nixon administrations have failed, for better or worse, to generate any enthusiasm for the war among the' American people. At the same time, the Communist propaganda machine has succeeded to a remarkable degree in convincing a small but important minority m this country that Ho's heirs, as bloody a bunch of killers as ever lived, are on "the side of the angels. The combination of these two factors means, in effect, that as a practical matter the continuation of the war is simply not possible. And this, of course, severly limits the ability of the United States to negotiate a satisfactory end to jts role in the conflict. WASHINGTON As North Vietnam's own statistics show, all that agoruzmg here and abroad over the Each By John Lloyd LONDON There is a certain kind of about snobbery having been educated at Eton. You are known m later life as an Old Etonian and that carries a class implication. You might not think an Old Etonian would become a Marxist and urge militant workers to greater effort for the downfall of capitalism. But neither might you think that, within the realm of socialism, his bitter opponent is the son of an often down and out tailor and never could have dreamed of going to Eton, Upon What Meat Doth This Our Nixon Feed? No one disputes Nixons landslide vicgress or the country may think. Obviously. Richardson is willing to accept that tory, but was it a mandate to bomb Situation, or he would not be willing to be Hanoi? Since Dr. Henry Kissinger assecretary of defense; but whether he or sured the Amencan people only 12 days before the election that peace was at somebody else is secretary of defense will make no difference whatever as to hand and since Nixon echoed that view whether Hanoi is bombed or not. Richard that night in Ashland, Ky.; since George Nixon will decide that, as Richard Nixon :McGovern did his best between then and election to call the supposed peace may choose. No One Disputes Landslide agreement a fraud, it could as well be argued that the landslide was a mandate According to Herbert Klein, "the adfor peace, and oa the Oct. 26 terms, at' ministrations propaganda coordinator, that. Nixon has a very clear mandate to proceed in the way that he has on Vietnam. But, in fact, by Nixons own testimoThis suggestion also has been made in ny, there was no agreement for peace on numerous official leaks from the White Oct 26 or if there was, the adminisHouse; and it is further disclosed by tration on it after the election reneged anonymous but assiduous sources that beon Nov. 7. That became clear, if it had cause of this clear mandate, Nixon is not been before, after Nixons meeting aggrieved by the unfair criticism of the with members of Congress last Friday, bombing that he has had to suffer from when one who was there quoted him as the likes of the Swedish prime minister, saying that we should know fairly the people, the American press and the quickly next week whether the North Vietnamese, as they claimed, are ready Republican senator from Ohio New York Times Service - NEW YORK No wonder Elliot L. Richardson took refuge in discreet silence when members of Congress, at hts cabinet confirmation hearing, asked whether the raids succeeded in this, but they certainly were not the outrage they were portrayed to be. To put things into slightly clearer perspective, more civilians were killed in the Communist attack on Hue in Tet of 1968 than died in substantive questions about his polig of "carpet-bombin- g the in the last days of J972. cy views. By now, i he knows that poli- - j Manipulate Opinion ! cy in this adminisrs -- The their Communists tration js the abso. and sympathizers retain- - an lute preserve of amazing ability to manipulate public Richard M, Nixon opinion in the Western democracies, It js and the janissaries true that this propaganda. capability is him in the jjr- - wicker largely limited to editorial writers, politiWhite House, . cians and the voluntary What difference does it make whether poor spewed out by universities, concenRichardson favored the bombing of Elliot trated on the East and West coasts of Hanoi over the Christmas holidays or not view shared this is (he country. That whether he would favor the resumption by real people, which is to say those who no agreement is forthhave never heard of blond Dubonnet or of that bombing if at the negotiating table in Pans? Arthur Schlesinger Jr., matters little, for coming will decide that, no matter Nixon Richard they are mute, concerned more with buswhat his secretary of defense or Con than with bombing. ing fellow-travele- light civilian toll in Hanoi- also illustrates the amazing the North Vietnamese have to capability evacuate large cities on short notice and to protect the essential personnel who must remain there. The Russians, as Western intelligence reports show, have the same capability, which is largely a function of discipline and training (all Russian scnool children receive evacuation drill and the Kremlins per capita expenditure on civilian defense far exceeds our own). All of which leads one to wonder about the relative size of the casualty lists if there ever were a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Niclloas yon Hoffman Haiphong Reaction Unclear It is not (and may never be) clear to what extent the unfavorable reaction s here and abroad among to the bombing influenced Nixons decision to halt aerial attacks north of the 20th Parallel. Nor is it clear to what or the cessation of extent the bombing influenced Hanois decithe bombing sion to return to the Pans peace talks. What is clear are the limitations a democracy necessarily imposes upon itself in the use of war as an instrument of national policy. It was, as Lt. Calley might put it, no big deal for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman to blow the bejeezus out of hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese civilians because the old propaganda mill was churning away and we all knew what beasts the Huns and Japs were. There were military censors to see to it that the folks at home were kept blessedly ignorant of the face of war (no picture of American dead appeared until after the Normandy landing). There were no former attorneys general, actresses or folk singers to tell us in graphic terms how it was for the people of Dresden or Hiroshima. opinion-molder- t, i Whole New Thing But this war, partially because it has been undeclared and partially because there has been no censorship (the two are not entirely unrelated), has been a different kettle of fish. The Kennedy, . Beautiful Barbara Sells Out at Last Party The house wasnt that much, a late King Features Sypdicate or Edwardian row house, long Victorian WASHINGTON The Pinkerton at Im disapBarbara Howars door was something and dark and uncomfortable. new. There have been many nights at pointed, one of the lady Visigoths who had waited two hours in the cold said Barbaras when when she got inside. I thought thered there were cops be fancy piaster moldings and that it outside, but they look like a mansion. would Oh, it was Serwere Secret full of china and silver and porcelain and vice guys waiting but it every kind of gilt to take the was no palace, and the imitation Louis maras and the KisXVI chairs were hell to sit on. singers safely home . to beddy-byeThe People didnt go to Barbaras for the - 5 dust-catche- r, Pinkerton was entertainment that small-witte- socially ambitious Washington 1 on Hoffman women buy. They went to Barbaras for for crowd control subur- lots cf reasons, one, of which was ungodto keep the lines of ban locusts moving through her house at ly good food. Barbara cooked it herself, and sometimes her mother down in a manageable pace. of Barbara was selling out, and they had North Carolina would make a big vat on the Greyhound come to the garage sale of the decade. It Brunswick stew, put it to Washington. was the Washington version of MGM put- and ship it up there last Saturday ting up the backlot props and costumes to the highest bidder. Barbara started out in the early Johnson administration ag the beautiful finiswife of a rich man. She was hing-school always at the White House and always running around with Luci Bird and Lynda Bird and Bird, but when the marriage ended in a famously publicized divorce, Barbara, no longer rich, endured as a hostess. My God! she explained to one of the souvenir-huntinsuburbanites who had found an old copy of the Washington social register and wanted to know the Thats the Green Book 1 was price, kicked out of. Kicked out she was, but it made no difference, no more than her subsequent reputation as the Queen Bitch She inspired abiding of the love among her friends, and she threw magnificent parties in her Georgetown house. . She was selling off her Wedgwood china, but nobody went to Barbaras because of the service. You didnt wear a dinner jacket at her house; sometimes you ate on the floor, and sometimes she and the kids and whoever else felt like it helped serve. You went to Barbaras for Barbara, for the other people she invited and the always an explosive mix boisterous, brutal hilarity at a Barbara Howar party. g The parties lasted late, and people drank too much. Yevtushenko, the Russian poet, running around making Slavic whoopie, or the girl who kept insisting that Henry Kissinger explain why he was such a terrible war criminal. Finally, the Doctor reproved her escort for having such bad taste in women, but she said it wasnt as bad as his taste in Presidents. one-liner- sell-ou- Everybody wanted to buy something. SAVE the worrying gastric activity. (Copyright) desenes it Destroy Present Form Entirely?' Or is the Marxist theory that it is necessary to utterly destroy the present form of state and replace it with a dictatorship of the proletariat m order to reach the goal of true socialism the correct one? For those who may wonder what the difference is between a socialist and a social democrat it lies in the fact that the socialist, or Marxist variety, abhors the idea of the social democrat that the present form of democratic stale can be iaken over by democratic processes and he made to work for the people, with the gradual disappearance of capitalism. The Labor Party in Britain is made up of left and right wings. Extremists m the former are in effect Marxists and the right is made up more along the order of social democrats. Feelings between the two wmgs can become very bitter, even to the extent that an eventual split m the party is not out of the question. Speak Different Languages Both the gentlemen mentioned in this article are members of the Labor party and were colleagues in the higher echelons of the last Labor government, which lost to the Conservatives in 1970. But they do indeed speak different languages and are currently conducting what might be called a fund in the columns of the New Statesman. It even reached a point where the Times interviewed them and summarized their respective views. The Old Etonian and Marxist is Andrew Glyn, now a professor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and his opponent Is Wilfred Beckerman, professor of political economy at London University. University. , ho'ds?- - have been pushed to such a point by militant unions demanding and getting higher wages that they have , had to reduce investments, thus there has been a restrictions in the growth of the national British capitalists, Glyn economy. The unions, in his view, should stop up their militancy and thus hasten . the end of capitalism. Profound Pain to Professor This gives Prof. Beckerman, the son of the tailor, a profound pain. He agrees that the increased militancy could cause the collapse of capitalism, but in a very dangerous way. lt could cause the collapse of capital'sm, but in a very dangerous way. It could bring the complete collapse of democracy, such as occurred in some parts of Europe between the world wars. SEPARATE KLH COMPONENT SYSTEM! $90.00 ON THIS wwm KLH Model 32 has always made a lot of very good loudspeakers. Now we make a lot of very good receivers, too. And KLH Speakers ''h'Jf - t like our loudspeakers, our receivers deliver an inordinate amount of performance at a very modest e is an price. For instance our new Model AMFM stereo receiver with power, dependability and all fpr every feature you could possibly want $199.95. Team it with our nifty Model Thirty-Tw- o loudspeakers, a Garrard 42 M Turntable with Shure Cartridge, and you've got a super system for just under Fifty-Fiv- & The fun couldn't go on forever. Barba $300. NOW SYSTEM PRICED Stomach Ulcers Develop 'Antacid Heads disease. This relationship is understandable, because stomach is the under the control cf the lie rvous s stem .in J ulcer victims uverrcjct, even to ordinary stimuli. This leads to the production of more than normal amounts of stomach acid along with an increase in to negotiate the three major issues of the October agreement. If words mean anything at all which, at high policy levels, they may not this has to mean that three major issues either had not been agreed to on Oct. 26 or were reopened later, and by the United States, vnee the North Vietnamese were then and are now ready to sign the Oct. 26 draft. But so far from denying the words attributed to the President, Ronald Ziegler and several congressmen identified the "three major issues as being the return of ceasefire and American prisoners, agreement to allow the Vietnamese to determine their own political future. Peace At Hand Claim Thus, the Amencan people voted on Nov. 7 under the clear impression that peace was at hand, and produced by the Nixon administration; but either Richard Nixon knew that peace was not at hand or the election itself caused him to renege on the Oct, 26 draft. To claim a mandate for the terror bombing of Hanoi under such dubious circumstances is to claim a mandate for anything Nixon wishes; his landslide, he seems to be saying, has placed an imperial crown upon his head. The worst of it is that there is a certain frightening truth in that. This withra changed and so did Washington. The drawn and untouchable man, who holds parites grew fewer as the idea of the cq? no nevs conferences, forbids elected lebrity hostess grated on her and ihg members of Congress to question him, Nixon Administration took more of a whose hand keeps not just Kissinger and hold. The recluse hiding in the White Secretary Rogers but hired and supposHouse let it be known among his hire edly responsible public servants from with who that didnt people lings testifying before duly constituted con? supping agree with him was a form of treason. gressional committees and who now Going over to Barbaras became an act rejects even the 20th Century custom of of raw courage. Only a few people like delivering personally his State of the Union Message Peter Peterson, the secretary of comUpon what meat doth our that he is grown so Caesar this and feed, dared. Peterson merce, Kissinger has now been bounced, and they say the great? Round Heads in the Oval Room are getSuppose the unlikely, that Congress ting ready to give it to Henry. should vote to cut off funds for the war; what power could make Nixon acquiesce, So Barbara gave one more party, a rather than claim that as commander in t party. Many of the women who chief he had the authority to proceed on came to help her rake in the suburban his own9 Or suppose the likely, that the cash had been her guests, and they got a Pans talks should fail again; what power honk out of it, peddling an Automatic could stop him from doing what he once Butt Sheer for $1 and a Dennis the Men- boasted he had the power to do deace comic book to a woman who had stroy the vital North Vietnamese dikes waited in line for two hours just to buy and dams in a week? something. In either case, the answer is "none. Dr. T.R. Vrn Dellen, Peptic ulcer no longer is a fashionable disease, even though it continues to affect about 12 million Americans. It is associated with stress and tension, and many people call it wi-1- precipitate collapse of democracy itself and open the way for fascism or some Other form of dictatorship? , Hanoi-Haiphon- t talist system as we know it to go. But how and by what means? That is the question. Would increased militancy on the part of the unions lead to a war-maki- t Both believe, nnnd you, that the capi- sav Fve noticed some hostility in the bureau . . Tom Wicker The intention of the raids was not to inflict heavy civilian casualties but to damage severely North Vietnam's potential. It is not yet clear : Key Subject Even Nixons ability to secure the release of the Amencan POWs through the threat of punitive bombing of North Vietnam's cities has been sharply circumscribed by the flapdoodle factor. If you will take the trouble to divide out those figures, always remembering that they are Hanois, not President Nixons, you will see that slightly more than one person was killed and one wounded in each attack. In contrast. Allied bombers dunng World War II frequently inflicted thousands of casualties in a single night on German and Japanese cities. All of which leads one to the number of conclusions, among them: A peptic ulcer is an open sore in the gastrointestinal tract Most of them are just beyond the exit valve of the stomach (duodenum). Others are found in the stomach or lower part of the esophagus. An ulcer begins as an erosion into the inner layer of the gastric pouch. deepens, it might ONLY! erode a blood vessel leading to hemorrhage. Or perhaps, it may erode through the stomach wall causing perforation. These are undesirable and dangerous complications. The notion that only executives develop ulcers is a myth. The lesions occur to people in all walks of life, including laborers, foremen, farmers, housewives and teachers. They are three times as common in men as in women. Most of the victims are between the ages of 25 and 34. but babies have ulcers and su do children and the elderly. As the opening 9 London Letter Roar Terror-Bombing- s 1 1973 Most ulcer diets contain foods that rest the stomach. The standard medication is an antacid with or without cream or milk. i Anticholinergic agents also are useful to divorce the stomach from the brain Drugs (such as belladonna) also relax the structure. There are many combinations of these products and the majority serve the same purpose, Surgery is necessary when medical therapy fails or complications develop. 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